Prof. Gabriele’s public-facing scholarship has appeared in numerous venues.

From June 2021 until December 2021, he was a columnist (with Davd M. Perry) for Smithsonian Magazine. Clips:

• “In St. Louis, History and Nostalgia Battle it Out,” July 2020.

• “A New History Changes the Balance of Power Between Ethiopia and Medieval Europe,” June 2021.

• “What the Medieval Olympics Looked Like,” July 2021.

• “The ‘Green Knight’ Adopts a Medieval Approach to ‘Modern’ Problems,” August 2021.

• “Vinland Map of North America Identified as 20th-century Forgery,” September 2021.

• “Why Dragons Dominated the Landscape of Medieval Monsters,” October 2021.

• “The Many Myths of the Term ‘Crusader,’” November 2021.

• “Did the Vikings Actually Torture Victims With the Brutal ‘Blood Eagle’?” December 2021.

• “The History behind Robert Eggers’ The Northman,” April 2022.

In 2018-19, he was a regular contributor to Forbes.com. Clips:

• “The Surprising Finds at King Arthur’s Legendary Castle,” Forbes.com, June 2018.

• “Why the History of Medieval Studies Haunts How We Study the Past,” Forbes.com, July 2018.

• “How Massive Drought Killed the Classic Maya Civilization (& Why We Already Knew That),” Forbes.com, August 2018.

• “Why We Should See the Middle Ages in All its ‘Garish’ Colors,” Forbes.com, September 2018.

• “There were no Borders in the Middle Ages,” Forbes.com, November 2018.

• “What you didn’t know about children in the Middle Ages,” Forbes.com, January 2019.

He has also written for The Washington Post, Time, The Daily Beast, Religion News Service, the American Historical Association’s Perspectives, and The Roanoke Times. Clips:

• “Five Myths of the Middle Ages,” The Washington Post, September 2016

• “What Eco could teach us about Trump and Twitter, The Roanoke Times, January 2017.

• “Islamophobes want to recreate the Crusades. But they don’t understand them at all,” The Washington Post, June 2017.

• “Want to know how ‘The Last Jedi’ will end? Check your Bible,” The Washington Post, December 2017.

• “Trump’s Recognition of Jerusalem excites apocalyptic fervor,” Religion News Service, December 2017.

• “After Charlottesville: Historians Tackle White Supremacist Nostalgia for an Imagined Past,” AHA Perspectives, January 2019.

• “Trump says medieval walls worked. They didn’t,” The Washington Post, January 2019.

• “Steve King says he was just defending ‘Western Civilization.’ That’s racist too,” (with David M. Perry) The Washington Post, January 2019.

• “Fire was the scourge of medieval cathedrals. But they rebuilt from the ashes,” The Washington Post, April 2019.

• “The Middle Ages Have Been Misused by the Far Right. Here’s Why It’s So Important to Get Medieval History Right,” (with Mary Rambaran-Olm) Time, November 2019.

• “Donald Trump Jr.’s rifle shows how obsessed the right still is with the Crusades,” (with David M. Perry) The Washington Post, January 2020.

• “Christian Groups That Resist Public-Health Guidelines Are Forgetting a Key Part of the Religion’s History,” Time, April 2020.

• “History Will Judge Trump But We’ve Got To Do It First,” (with David M. Perry) The Daily Beast, December 2020.

• “Vikings, Crusaders, Confederates: Misunderstood Historical Imagery at the January 6 Capitol Insurrection,” Perspectives Daily, January 2021.

• “How bad analogies undermine our understanding of history,” (with David M. Perry) The Washington Post, May 2021.

• “On Guillotines, Monarchy, and the American Right,” June 2021.

• “Latest Diatribe on Francis and Latin Mass in the Times Launders History,” Religion Dispatches, August 2021.

• “Ted Lasso is not about what you think,” (with David M. Perry), CNN, October 2021.

• “The Deus Vult Cross,” Uncivil Religion: January 6, 2021 (collaboration with the University of Alabama and the Smithsonian Museum of American History)

• “There’s a new villain on ‘Ted Lasso,” CNN, March 2023.

• “Student protests are what created the modern university as we know it,” CNN, April 2024.